Dec 29 2009
Bash Colored Root Prompt
From Linux Suse /etc/bash.bashrc:
# Colored root prompt (see bugzilla #144620) if test "$UID" -eq 0 -a -t && type -p tput > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then _bred="$(tput bold 2> /dev/null; tput setaf 1 2> /dev/null)" _sgr0="$(tput sgr0 2> /dev/null)" PS1="\[$_bred\]$PS1\[$_sgr0\]" unset _bred _sgr0 fi